skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol wat. 'Free market' is a spherical cow in a vacuum. Its an abstraction that people like to make to reduce complex reality to something small and comfortable. In reality, the world is not driven only (or even mostly) by market forces. All players in modern economies are subsidized by and beholden to governance by nation states. That wildly warps what actually happens outside the textbook.
Yeah I'm aware of feed generation and as I said I wrote my own feeds to do some of this filtering. I really should use Lists more often, you bring up a good point.

I'm a huge fan of how easy it is to have editorial control of your feed on Bluesky and the concept of a standard Bluesky identity.
That's great!

That seems like something that Adobe would want to borg.
"Because humans can only type or speak a finite amount, and as computers continue improving, text indexing will scale even better than it does now. Of course there could be an infinite amount of machine generated content, but just indexing huge amounts of human generated content seems tremendously useful."

Oh, just you wait.
Obnoxious behavior is already banned but it's a huge hassle to have to call the police about littering or excessive noise, and often the police don't even respond. Much easier to just keep the trashy people out in the first place by banning short-term rentals. They can go stay in a hotel instead.
I am a huge BLuesky fan. I have switched my entire social experience to it. I get good engagement, mostly with seemingly decent people. I almost always can find interesting things to read.

I have moderated the shit out of my feed. I rarely see things I do not want to (I had to give up politics and current events after the election). I use the list feature to curate separate feeds for different topics (music, programming, books, etc). I have started experimenting with graze.social to create my own algorithmic feeds.

I have changed my handle to my own domain. One of these days I’m going to move my stuff to my own personal data store because it sounds like fun.

Bluesky is also cool because of being the first mover/developer of AT Protocol. It’s my view that at:// will be a scheme that is as ubiquitous and important as http:// in a few years. That we will use it to login into stuff instead of facebook, google or github and that there will be numerous messaging things (including those sending money and other resources) based on ‘lexicons’ as well.

There are problems, of course. It’s new and people are pressuring them to do viewpoint moderation which is a terrible idea. There are still many features that are missing.

But, it’s a very fun platform with a lot less negativity than Twitter and a lot less bland stupidity than facebook. Threads is fine but it’s 100% zuckerberg’s feed. Tribal takes like four clicks to make a post. Mastodon is a bad UI and instances tend to be narrow-minded fiefdoms.

Most of the comments on this thread are talking about what might happen, ‘enshitification’!! Oh My!. The actual fact is that it is a good thing presently and I hope decen people will flock to it and make sure it is supported to reach its maximum awesome potential.
“Do no bad?” This post explicitly calls OpenAI a Ponzi scheme! Did we read the same thing?
This is the absolute top of my wish list for software on iOS (impossible with Apple’s draconian restrictions though).
> I'm only aware that apple offers advanced protection on your uploaded data, which you have to opt into, which might be what you're talking about...?

This is to store your data within iCloud. You can turn it off or on at your convenience, but end-to-end encryption prevents other features, which is why they leave the decision up to users.

In contrast, the article linked here does not involve your actual data leaving your device in any way. Even the metadata is encrypted and hashed and then compared in obfuscated form. Homomorphic encryption allows these computations to take place _on the encrypted form of the data_, _without_ revealing the results. Only you can make sense of the result.

Thus, data can be exchanged with a foreign computer while provably keeping your _actual_ data safe, since the computation was performed on an obfuscated form of it. Apple can't even track you down to gain your device's cooperation in decoding it, since you are hidden behind a proxy.
A couple of observations to give insight into the USA's political sentiment at the time:

1. In 1976, Ford carried California, Illinois, Virginia, and every western state except Texas. Carter carried Texas, Wisconsin, Ohio and almost all southern states including Florida.

2. When Carter won the country was still coming to terms with Vietnam, was completely dismayed by the Watergate scandal and subsequent pardon, was witnessing chaos in Iran, was living under the threat of mutually assured destruction, was experiencing rampant inflation, rising oil prices, a stagnant economy, and possessed a large group of rebellious baby-boomers kicking at the stalls but not quite ready-for-primetime.

The USA needed Jimmy Carter's southern sensibilities, humility, and values in order to take a deep breath.

Rest in Peace Mr. President. Well done in retrospect.
In what regard? The SDKs change out from underneath you?
Here is Eric Sink's recollection: https://ericsink.com/Browser_Wars.html
Unless I am mistaken, the Microsoft versions are all single slabs of hardware with a slight space between the halves. By split keyboard, I want two separate pieces of hardware I can arbitrarily position to fit my body. I maintain a solid 12 inches(30 cm) between the pieces on my desk.
Steam isn't trivially replaceable. What are you talking about? No other platform matches them on feature set.

Amazon also has a significant advantage in its logistics that underpin their entire business across the globe and that nobody else can match.

You're also wrong about how Google maintains its monopoly, or Microsoft.

All I see is bias and an unwillingness to understand, well, any of the relevant topics.
For anyone who wants to challenge themselves to better understand the computers we use every day, I highly recommend the NandToTetris course [0]

I have learnt more about computers in 2 weeks of this course, than years of software development.

Particularly if you are a web-developer, I challenge you to look deeper into PC architectures and low-level programming.

C is a great language to get started with.

After I build this project, I want to move on to a more powerful emulator (maybe a GameBoy or similar, but probably starting at the CPU level rather than the logic gate level!)

[0] - https://www.nand2tetris.org/
>Americans have allowed corporations to form massive entities (in health insurance, UHC + optum bank + optima rx comes to mind)

This is more an anti-trust problem than deregulation. In the 80s Robert Bork and some others led a charge within the court system to rewrite federal anti-trust law without actually rewriting the laws. The result was that merger/acquisition guidelines were loosened, and the focus was on whether the result would cause the consumer to pay more money. And thanks to the way health care is paid for, it's a little complicated to make that case.
> last I stuck my head into that particular hell

I don't think it's hell if you like retrocomputing. Personally I find it fascinating. In the past I sometimes had to work on legacy systems and I liked playing the archeologist role.

Maybe you are not referring to the platform, but rather to code quality. But I have found some a lot of jumbled messy React code in early stage startups, and some decent code in legacy systems I have worked on, so I guess code quality is not always directly related to age of the system...
> Making medical insurance premiums fully tax-deductible would fix that.

...or alternatively, removing deductions for medical insurance.
Don't get the wrong idea about this announcement.

The problem is not that pediatric urgent care is not a viable business.

The problem is that it's not a great VC-funded business.

VC investors are hoping for huge growth and eventually earning back multiples of their investment.

That's going to be really hard to do in this segment of the health-care market.

We've got a wonderful pediatric urgent-care place in our area, backed by the best children's hospital in our metro region, and it seems to be doing great. But does that mean it could ever grow at the rate needed to satisfy VC investors? Probably not.
Yeah, this worries me a bit! Never seen any issues, and I'm only using them in low-impact environments (keyboards + mice), and only charging while present.
As someone who teaches both oil painting and digital painting, I find this project fascinating. They have certainly identified two of the key difference between digital and real paint:

- RYB mixing (e.g. yellow painting plus blue paint = green). I tested it on a mix of alizarin crimson plus hansa yellow to produce a cold orange (e.g. blood orange).

- Relative behavior of specific pigments. For example, a Prussian blue is almost black when applied thickly, but very chromatic when applied as thinly over white. A cerulean blue is pretty much the same in those two states. I tested this on a Prussian and the app performed well.

The app seems to make the assumption that the artist will always want the paint to mix. In a glaze, a thin transparent layer of paint is applied over dry paint. Effectively the result is a filter (the result will always be darker). To a degree, this can be faked using paint applied in a layer the blend mode of which has been set to multiply. It might be nice to add a drying brush to the tool set which selectively dries the paint to prevent mixing. Maybe also a mode switch to selectively different modes of physical application such as glazing, scumbling and dry brushing. While we are at it, why not add a Tonk mode using which thick paint can be lifted off the surface without smudging.

When I paint digitally, I mix the incredible nuance of real paint... even its smell. When I paint with oils I miss the incredible flexibility of the digital process (blend modes, compositing, even the humble undo). Never the twain...
If this isn't explained during the setup process, it doesn't count. Magic undocumented incantations are not a user interface. Normal users will never discover this.
Because the activities are often being done by people who aren't there long and don't care if it is not allowed or not. Speeding, noise, trash left out or just littering, illegal parking is all already against the rules, but enforcement for nuisance stuff is never strong enough to really even impact someone who does it ... and knows they'll be gone soon.
The organisation founded in 1957 which is now known as the European Union, originally had six members: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

Weird how everyone always forgets about Italy
But you _can_ put a good SDK in place to abstract away a terrible API.

I've done this at work to ease use for clients -- once they're happy with the SDK interface I can do whatever I want behind the scenes to shore up the API/backend without impacting those same clients and their OK SDK.
The best feature is the map which shows the locations of all the connection attempts.

You can quickly spot anomalous connections to countries/servers, and locate the specific process doing this.

I found a daemon left over from an uninstalled app which was attempting to connect to its mother ship in China. Very strange.
ISH: Linux on jailbreak-free iPhones via userspace emulation
Which countries are the Eastern European contractors from?
For those not aware, they are most likely referring to an ongoing "tobacco war" among organised crime groups in Australia, with tobacconists becoming the targets of many arson attacks.

Obviously the illicit tobacco trade is a large/primary driver of this, but illicit vapes are also becoming a part of their business.
> Platforms have to start here too. Otherwise, they’re DOA.

Completely agree with this. The person who starts building the ultimate meta-framework or meta-API as step 1 is almost inevitably doomed to failure if they can't articulate a specific problem they solve better for their users.
You obviously I have not been very involved in the housing discourse over the last two decades. Good night, I ending this discussion.
Ultimately, here is a user-level guide to this feature:

(1) Do you trust iCloud? iMessage?

If so, then you already trust weaker technologies than the ones in use here. In my opinion, trusting iMessage is sensible, and it has been tested (see: FBI and San Bernardino shooter's phone).

(2) Do you trust TLS (i.e. HTTPS)?

If so, then you already trust weaker encryption architectures than the ones in use here. Your counterparty over TLS necessarily needs to _decrypt_ the data you send it. That is not the case here; homomorphic encryption means Apple processes the data in _encrypted form_.

(3) Do you consider opaque derived data as risky as plaintext metadata?

If so (i.e. if you feel an MD5 hash of your phone number is just as risky as your actual phone number), then you may take issue with this feature. If not (you are OK with hashes of your data because you understand how encryption works, and that it must be transmitted either way, so a salted hash is obviously a strictly better choice), then you already trust weaker protections than the ones in use here.

(4) Do you trust Face ID/Touch ID?

Hardware-secured keys are a necessary root of trust which underpins all these features. If you don't trust these, you won't like this feature, and, in fact, all bets are off.

Thus, the feature is secure enough to be defaulted to an active state.
Open for contribution, its very simple code, and adding some testing logic would really help! I'm happy to guide and work with anyone on how to do this :)

A really simple way to start contributing would be to write some truth table tests for the nand_gate, then the other gates too.

EG: For the NAND gate, it would be as simple as the following (pseudocode):

/* TRUTH TABLE
* | a | b | out |
* ---------------
* | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* | 0 | 1 | 1 |
* | 1 | 0 | 1 |
* | 1 | 1 | 0 |
*/

// Define gate
Nand nand_instance;

// Set inputs to either 0 or 1
nand_instance.input.a = 0;
nand_instance.input.b = 0;

// Process logic
nand_gate(&nand_instance);

// Check output is correct
if (nand_instance.output.out == 1)
{
// PASSED
}
else
{
// FAILED
}

Oh and for anyone who looks at this sort of low level project (hardware etc) and feels its outside their ability, its not!

I say this because thats how I have always felt seeing such projects.

Its actually very, very simple code to understand and start yourself, and working through the NandToTetris course, you could probably do better than my code within a few days.

You could write such an emulator in any programming language
you wrote a whole bunch of words that I can sum up

- yea america sucks but so does everyone else (false)

- yea america is obese but so is everyone else (false)

- being lonely is a function of your political affiliation (this was absolutely amazing to see - wow)

- things are great cause I have few friends who barbeque

- kids cannot walk alone because of urban vs. rural (wild wild wild stuff, one of the most urban places on the planet - Tokio Japan - has kids riding metro by themselves, you should look it up. this summer in belgrade I did not know where my 11-year old daughter was 80% of the day… this is america’s sickness, not rural vs urban

Geez …
Most people outside of healthcare will have a hard time disrupting anything until they realize the goverment has tilted the rules in favor of status-quo.

Healthcare insurance in the US is heavily subsidized, and no number of revolutionary care delivery models will put you on level terms with the behemoth of US govt insurance subsidies.

Your only hope as a non-provider is to come in with your own a-la-carte insurance that is able to take those subsidies, while you set your moat and innovate in the delivery front.
I think imprisoning US citizens based on race and laying the groundwork for the current healthcare system disqualifies one from the podium.
> That's a generic problem with corporatism and monopoly, not "tech".

There is a general problem with corporatism and monopoly, but there are also specific problems with "tech". Oil & gas monopolies don't broadly carry everyone's private interactions. Sports monopolies generally can't expose political dissidents.
Show HN: Notle.ai: AI CDSS for Psychologists/Psychiatrists
Hello all, been working on this for almost two years now. Notle is a workspace for psychologists to do things like note documentation, intake assessments, psychometric assessments and insurance reviews. We also offer features such as therapist feedback, deployable AI chatbots, session recaps for patients and psychometric forecasting. Using the psychometrics generated each session Notle uses predictive capabilities to notice compounding issues before they exacerbate.

To be honest, when building this I did so in a way that would probably be considered a red flag for most - I didn't talk to many users, I initially built it just to explore how stable and accurate AI could generate psychometrics for things like depression, anxiety, etc. I built it more in the name of "science" than what the market is actually demanding. So the process has been up and down as far as finding our market fit.

That being said, I still believe we are on the forefront of the future with what we are doing and AI will be able to aid in the treatment and diagnosis of patients in the psych field.

I'd love any feedback, thanks.
Looks interesting.

May I suggest for contextgeneric .dev that you put the Hello World example right up front? People evaluating or considering such a system will likely be busy.
I really dislike articles like this, where they say things like "Billionaires do X", or "Silicon Valley Execs Do Y". They are casting large nets implicating many when in reality the facts they give only point at a few. Please keep in mind I really have no stance on the article one way or another, I am more pointing out the hyperbole of article titles. Having read the article it seems the list only the following 5 people and give their total donation amounts. Please note these amounts are over many years.

Bernie Marcus: $13M,
Haim Saban: $9M,
Casey Wasserman: $525,000.00,
Paul Singer: $1.7M,
Larry Ellison: $26.6M,
Jan Koum: $6.8M
It's hard to give advice on the project without knowing how complex the final result is intended to be.

However, I think the following steps are a good algorithm for solving problems of many sizes.

1. Make the requirements less dumb

2. Delete everything from the system that is not absolutely needed

3. Re-add what is still needed. If you don't have anything to re-add, you did not delete enough.

4. Speed it up, make it more efficient

5. Automate it

This engineering advice comes from Elon in his interview with Lex Fridman.

https://youtu.be/CDZ9REOh2xA?si=-2nySNO2G889oew1
I owned several versions of Little Snitch too. It started to be annoying when you had to approve each request, especially when running command-line scripts. Then I moved to run in silent-approval mode. At that point, there was no reason to have LS any longer, so I uninstalled it. Haven't used it in years now. But not to discredit LS, it is an amazing software when you need it.
You're confusing cause and effect. Health care used to be cheap because it couldn't really do much beyond treating some minor injuries and infections. Until about a century ago, what we had was barely a step above witch doctors. Health insurance or lack thereof only started to become a major issue when care delivery started to become more effective and expensive.
This is such a butterfly effect/singularity situation that it becomes layers-upon-layers deep as you start unpacking it.
I don't think there is a correct answer.

https://wolfstreet.com/2024/12/26/san-francisco-house-prices...
Apart from the lack of sophistication regarding background saving, the two main reasons were

a) writing to disk was inherently dangerous: file systems of the time were not robust, so anything going wrong while updating metadata (in particular) could trash not just your file but the whole filesystem. Floppies were slow and machines were crashier, making the whole operation riskier; and

b) using floppies reduces their lifespan because the disk physically rubs against both the read/write heads and the internal padding of its casing, so typically they were only accessed as part of an explicit user request.
Oh yeah? I know a few ppl who are on fediverse but aren't comfortable sharing their account, interestingly. Also, yeah, for now it's mostly techie/geeky/academic types who are on Mastodon, with a good slice of artistic/creative people coming in as well. I follow a couple artists who barely know how to use the software but are posting frequently and having lots of good discussions and stuff. Pretty sweet.

Oh also, it might seem more dead than it really is because some people post primarily "followers-only". I only have one or two posts a month that can be seen by "everyone".
Is there a rough estimate what the BOM costs? Looks like a fun learning project.
> It has consistently been about illegal immigration.

If this was true, why for decades have they been so concerned about which countries immigrants were coming from and so unsupportive of attempts to provide legal means to get the workers businesses need while opposing penalties for the businesses which hire people who can’t work legally? This situation isn’t new, there have been so many discussions for decades, but we’re still locked in the situation where businesses depend on Spanish-speaking workers but too many Americans oppose legal ways for them to work here.
It was all over the media at the time. You are cherry picking.
> Healthcare is one of the most regulated industries in the United States.

And yet other countries have even more regulation, and manage to deliver cheaper and more equitable healthcare overall, with better public health outcomes when measured at the national level

For example: in Australia, the federal government is a near-monopsony purchaser of prescription drugs, so it has enormous negotiating power with the pharmaceutical companies. By contrast, in the US, the federal government’s role in purchasing drugs is much smaller: the end result is higher drug prices, although the downside of Australia’s model is it can delay availability of new drugs. (Those with unlimited ability to pay can still purchase drugs privately at whatever cost the manufacturer will sell them-you can even get bureaucrat approval to import unapproved drugs for personal use if you can find a senior clinician willing to assist you in it.)
How many books/documents are stored in those 405 billion parameters?
H1B are sometimes paid less, so profit at the top increases while wages drop.

https://www.epi.org/press/a-majority-of-migrant-workers-empl...
Firewalls and endpoint security are important, and Little Snitch is pretty good, but this feels like an ad being posted.

It’s just a link to the main page of their website: nothing specific to warrant discussion.
That's not a convincing rebuttle. Saying that "drinking water is healthy" is controversial because "drink 1000 litres in a day and see how that goes" does not help the conversation.
I'm amused by the fact that everyone always blames the person who has been explicitly isolated from having any economic power, the president. The electorate just seems to bully the president in this regard.
Could have said that at one point about Twitter or Reddit.
Geriatric care will be the gold rush of the 2040s. If I knew a solid way to invest in that, I would.
Dual 3090s are way cheaper than the l40s though. You can even buy a few backups.
Worth noting that you need iCloud active in the first place to opt-out of this feature, so it is still opt-in, since it is only ever defaulted to being on for users who proactively signed into iCloud.
Do they have really strict rate limits? How much did you use it?
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